Mike Giant Podcast

Giant's interview with Dave Persué, a fine artist based in San Diego, California. Recorded in their studio in Miramar on Monday, October 23, 2019. Topics discussed: Per-Sway, growing up in San Diego, Star Wars, sports, getting forced outside to play, drawing, Nikol Schattenstein, William Randolf Hearst, inspirational mother and grandmother, absent father, soccer, discovering alternative music (Visage, Roxy Music, Ultravox, Adam Ant, Duran Duran), Morrisey-style, electric bass, high school bands, discovering graffiti and rap music in 1988, influential older sister, began writing graffiti in 1988, Xpek, Wesk, hanging with crews, Boone’s Farm, experiments with hallucinogens, Acid Mike, Subway Art and Spraycan Art, bombing, Ken Block, DC companies, Mike Vallely, Tony Magnusson, Mike Ternasky, full time graphics work, rubylith, Circa, contracts, designing shoes for Osiris in the 1990s, skateboarding, eating concrete, basketball, graffiti friends, 1.5hr commute, living close to your office, off-site design agenci